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'''Jacob Sweet''' is a boy who was born at [https://alaska.providence.org/locations/p/pamc Providence Hospital] in Anchorage, Alaska on Thursday, 16 January 1986. The following day, on Friday, 17 January 1986, James Nesbitt, M.D. of [https://tccpeds.com/Home The Children's Clinic], without medical indication, provided the healthy infant with a non-therapeutic circumcision. The infant was then discharged home.<ref name="hammond2008">{{REFweb | '''Jacob Sweet''' is a boy who was born at [https://alaska.providence.org/locations/p/pamc Providence Hospital] in Anchorage, Alaska on Thursday, 16 January 1986. The following day, on Friday, 17 January 1986, James Nesbitt, M.D. of [https://tccpeds.com/Home The Children's Clinic], without medical indication, provided the healthy infant with a non-therapeutic circumcision. The infant was then discharged home.<ref name="hammond2008">{{REFweb | ||
|url=http://www.noharmm.org/sweet.htm | |url=http://www.noharmm.org/sweet.htm | ||
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|quote=To me the Sweets are heroic figures,'' Johnson said. ``In order to right a terrible wrong — the catastrophic injury to their son — they confronted two of society's most powerful institutions: the medical system and the legal system. They fought for 13 years until they prevailed. | |quote=To me the Sweets are heroic figures,'' Johnson said. ``In order to right a terrible wrong — the catastrophic injury to their son — they confronted two of society's most powerful institutions: the medical system and the legal system. They fought for 13 years until they prevailed. | ||
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==Death== | |||
Jacob Sweet died at an early age. | Jacob Sweet died at an early age. | ||
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* http://www.nocirc.org/publish/9-95.pdf | * http://www.nocirc.org/publish/9-95.pdf | ||